eastern forests

A Wilderness Society Web feature story decries the outrageous attacks on public wild lands which were jammed through in the recent federal budget bill. I am struck by the stark contrast between the strident anti-nature sentiment present in the U.S.

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Parker, a forest ecologist at the Smithsonian Institution, has spent the past 22 years on a research project so repetitive, so time-consuming, that it impresses even researchers with the patience to count tree rings. Since 1987, he and a group of volunteers have embraced thousands of trees, slipped a tape measure behind them, and wrapped it around to measure the trees' girth.

Schlesinger's talk will serve as a prologue to the Headwaters Gathering being held at the college March 27-29. The three-day long conference hosted by Warren Wilson, Orion Magazine and The Wilderness Society will focus on how climate change is going to affect the mountain region environmentally as well as socially, economically and culturally, said Margo Flood, executive director of the Environmental Leadership Center at Warren Wilson.

The U.S. Forest Service's regional office in Milwaukee has taken over management of the booming oil and gas industry operations on the Allegheny National Forest, where thousands of wells have been drilled in recent years.

My friends and I were recently approached at a market here in Washington by two girls no older than the age of 10. They asked us to sign a petition that would protect their local park from being purchased and converted into a multi-use development. I was so impressed by their fearlessness in approaching total strangers at such a young age that I did not initially realize the significance of their question.

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James Cameron’s latest movie, “Avatar,” is affecting America far more than a nation-wide increase of popcorn sales. There are plenty of reasons why this is the highest grossing film of all time, but I’m raving about the movie because this film promotes the values of human connection to the earth and the importance of caring for people for our planet.